Most Star Wars games ask you to win a battle. Star Wars: Rebellion asked you to administer the consequences. It wanted to know where your ships were built, which planets paid for them, whether the local population supported your government, who was spying on your shipyards, which officer should command the fleet, and whether Luke Skywalker had enough spare time between diplomatic assignments to become a Jedi. Then it opened another window. Released for Windows in 1998, Star Wars: Rebellion was developed by Coolhand Interactive and published by LucasArts. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the same game was released as Star Wars: Supremacy. There are no separate campaigns, altered mechanics, or regional design differences hiding behind the second title. Rebellion and Supremacy are the same enormous, stubborn, fascinating strategy game. The premise was almost irresponsibly ambitious. Instead of focusing on one battlefield, one fleet, or one group of heroes,…
